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Light but Sound - Kitsch and Desire in the works of Marguerite Duras and
Milan Kundera. LIGHT BUT SOUND: KITSCH AND DESIRE IN THE ...
Submitted by vikki_ekpo on September 28, 2005
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LIGHT BUT SOUND: KITSCH AND DESIRE IN THE WORKS OF DURAS AND KUNDERA
The works of Marguerite Duras and Milan Kundera are the most intense and non-conformingly crafted works I have read. They both lack the structured style of constructed art yet give the effect of amazing thoughts that in crumbling, forms into the most perfect patterns of representation, feeling and poetry. It is this great emphasis on the narrative rather than plot, the telling' of the story, without closure, the performance of the story not the writing' of it that makes their novels more art than writing. They are art, not an exercise in the presentation of morality, political consciousness or social dilemma for that matter, but in an amazing display of their art, without the judgmental, conviction of the believer and verifiable speculation of the observer, they nevertheless bring all these factors into plain view. Performance' becomes the value of writing.
Neurosis to Kundera is a global human condition; it is the state of life and the individual's relationship with and to this state of life. What everyone else tries to name and classify, for instance, words like love becoming a classification for people who feel a mixture of lust, respect and affection for another, is to Kundera and Duras, merely the paradoxical interplay of life and what our present sphere of relations consist of. I sense Kundera to be the man of the Enlightenment, one who is not loath to champion reason over emotion, pointing out as he has frequently done in his essays as well as fiction, that many of the worst disasters mankind has suffered were spawned by those who attended most passionately to the dictates of the heart. His The Unbearable Lightness of Being is the classic oeuvre of the psychology of Kundera's world: he actually defines what in other novels, were just ideas and formulations without any particular definition, here, he defines lightness as love' without obligation, and weight...
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